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Article

Roberts, David and Palmer, Richard (2023) Harris vs Harris: A Restoration Actor at the Court of Arches. Huntington Library Quarterly, 86 (4). ISSN 0018-7895 (In Press)

Roberts, David and Foster, Suzanne (2020) Colley Cibber and Winchester College. Notes and Queries. ISSN 1471-6941

Roberts, David (2019) Beethoven and Shakespeare: Ghosts and Heroes. The Cambridge Quarterly, 48 (2). pp. 95-112. ISSN 0008-199X

Roberts, David (2016) Shakespeare and the Jewellers. Cambridge Quarterly, 45 (2). pp. 157-174. ISSN 0008199X (ISSN)

Hopkins, Izabela Maria and Roberts, David (2015) ‘Chocolate-covered Broccoli’? Games and the Teaching of Literature. Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 22 (2). pp. 222-236. ISSN 1358684X

Roberts, David (2013) Ranked among the best: translation and cultural agency in restoration translations of French drama. The Modern Language Review, 108 (2). pp. 396-415. ISSN 0026-7937

Roberts, David (2011) Thomas Betterton. TLS - The Times Literary Supplement (5630). ISSN 0307-661X

Book Section

Roberts, David (2025) Theatre Censorship in Restoration London: the case of Charles Killigrew, Master of the Revels. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre Censorship. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783031672989

Roberts, David (2025) True Comedy? Etherege, Wycherley, Shadwell. In: The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192866035

Roberts, David (2016) Writing the ethical life: Theatrical biography and the case of Thomas Betterton. In: Theatre History and Historiography: Ethics, Evidence and Truth. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 33-47. ISBN 9781137457288 (ISBN); 9781137457271 (ISBN)

Roberts, David (2013) Thomas Killigrew, Theatre Manager. In: Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-century English Stage: New Perspectives. Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama . Ashgate Publishing, pp. 63-91. ISBN 978-1409466680

Book

Roberts, David (2018) George Farquhar: A Migrant Life Reversed. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, London. ISBN 9781350057067

Roberts, David (2014) Restoration plays and players: An introduction. Restoration Plays and Players: An Introduction . Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-252. ISBN 9781139227100 (ISBN); 9781107027831 (ISBN)

Roberts, David (2013) Pinacotheca Bettertonaeana: The library of a seventeenth-century actor. Society for Theatre Research. ISBN 978-0854300785

Roberts, David (2010) Thomas Betterton: The Greatest Actor of the Restoration Stage. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521195843

Thesis

Roberts, David Henry (2023) Shakespeare and Bagehot: a Study in Drama and Politics. Doctoral thesis, Birmingham City University.